Would offering a scholarship only to people who are at least 25% Caucasian be racist? I think so. Would it be wrong? No more wrong than any other scholarship that takes into consideration race.
The bottom line is that as long as someone is bothering to check the skin color/background/race/whatever as a precondition for getting treatment of any kind, it is wrong.
So do I like the idea of a "whites only" scholarship as a good way to fund someone's education? No. But I LOVE the idea of using such a scholarship to raise the issue that racist scholarships and racist practices still remain and need to be eliminated.
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